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The guardians of Truth

When Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. al-Nuʿman (known as Shayṭān al-Ṭāq by his opponents, and Mu’min al-Ṭāq by the Imāmiyya) argued with the Sayyid regarding the Imamate, and Muḥammad prevailed over him in the argument about Ibn al-Ḥanafiyya's Imamate, the Sayyid said:

ألاياأيهاالجدلالمعنيلنامانحنويحكوالعناء

اتبصرمانقولوأنتكهلتراكعليكمنورعرداء

ألاأنالأئمةمنقريشولاةالحقأربعةسواء

عليوالثلاثةمنبنيههمأسباطةوالأوصياء

فأنىفيوصيتهإليهميكونالشكمناوالمراء

بهمأوصاهمودعاإليهمجميعالخلقلوسمعالدعاء

فسبطسبطإيمانوحلموسبطغيبتهكربلاء

سقيجدثاتضمنهملثهتوفالرعدمرتجزرواء

تظلمظلةمنهاعزالعليهوتغتديأخرىملاء

وسبطلايذوقالموتحتىيقودالخيليقدمهااللواء

منالبيتالمحجبفيسراةٍشراةلفبينهمالأخاء

عصائبليسدونأغرأجليبمكةقائملهمانتهاء

Indeed O troublesome disputer, for us be what we are, woe be to you and trouble

Will you see what we say while you are old, you will see that upon you of piety be a robe

Indeed the Imams from Quraysh, the guardians of Truth are four alike

‘Alī and three from his sons, they are grandsons and the legatees

So how can there be in his testament to them doubt from us and uncertainty

In them he bequeathed and to them he called all of the creation, had they but heard the call

So a grandson, a grandson of faith and clemency, and a grandson who Karbala made to disappear